Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
Fellow members who have been asked to come back and pinchhit for our 100 and 12th president , allison kojak, who is getting welldeserved rest leading Investigative Unit having just unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thinking the members as always for putting their trust in me to has have served as the 110th president in 2017. We welcome our headliner, congressman elijah cummings, democrat from the state of maryland, chairman of the House Committee of oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce the head table. A couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first. If you do have a question for the chairman, those of you in the ballroom, you have your cards on the table. Please write them down and pass them up front. We will try to ask as many of them as time permits and so forth. Also if you have a mobile device and you have slipped in there in the past few minutes and didnt hear my earlier warnings, before
Speech i plan to give today, i plan on coming when we set this up a couple of weeks ago. To talk about agricultural policy, unions, rural policies. But too much as happened in the recent past. I have prepared for me a speech that i hope would set a marker for what we should be doing. You all know that the words of a president matter. Hey can move markets they can send our brave women and men to war. They can bring peace. They can calm a nation in turmoil. They can console, they can confront and comfort those who have faced tragedy. They can inspire us to literally reach for the moon. They can encourage us to appeal to our better angels, our better nature. They can also unleash the deepest, darkest forces in the nation. That is what i believe donald trump has chosen to do. What he said after charlottesville, there were, and i quote, very fine people on both sides, i said then that it gave license in safe harbor to White Supremacists and neonazis, to the ku klux klan. These words not onl
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